I'm probably a nigger and did this before. Oh well.
Thanks for the post, it's fun seeing the difference in cinema back then. No fucking CGI bullshit and has more of a 'working class' feel (if that's the right way to put it).
Roger,l I know what you mean.
Didn't realise that was Michael Madsen -every day's a school day I guess.
I always found the fly-on-the-wall footage in The Day After more effective than the drama. That bit on the "looking glass" jet was fantastic.
My sister wants me to read the "Looking Glass" to understand it (she's slightly ... slightly crazy). Guess that is soon on the reading list.
E: Then again, I'm so "logical" it is questionable. I can't fault my sister too much.
Great flick, miss the 80's, miss being dumb.
The 80s is heaven.
Also, I would never have turned the key. I'm gay like that.
Probably the right choice.
Other people have been in similar situations and decided not to attack. So far they've been correct.
https://www.sciencealert.com/near-misses-nuclear-war-history-cold-war-radar-missiles
Weirdly one of the people who stepped back from the brink was that singer James Blunt, lol:
I'm all for violent war, but I would not launch back. Even if I knew the nukes were coming in. I don't see the point then. Game over, man!
No reason to kill the other side if they are White (meaning Russia).
Thats why they randomly run human training/ tests. You don't know if the launch code is a test or if it's actually going to launch.
Correct. They turned those keys three times a day in drills. Nobody in a silo was going to not turn a key. Hollywood lied to us.
No, they don't.
You are giving the military too much credit, like Hollywood jews. They had the "briefcase" number set to 0000000 for all nukes at one point.
Don't trust the government. Certainly don't trust the military.
Lol.
Mmmkay.
What's hilarious is that you have no idea what my frame of reference actually is.
So he is going to shoot him, how is he then supposed to turn both keys?
Because 99% of orders to go through launch procedure were drills. and because they could never know if it was a drill until after they completed their procedure, at least for the first missile, getting shot in the head was a deterrent against insubordination.
Actually feeling the rumble of a launch after you turn the key for the 5,000th time was a shit-your-pants experience. It was just a test. The poor guy's CO thought he needed to be messed with a little and did not tell him they were test launching an ICBM aimed at the ocean without a real warhead.
He did not shoot him. It is ... are you fucking with me?!?
Fine, you win you logical chess player.
Now go snort some cocaine off a nigger's ass.
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